CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
Here’s your chance to win a €15 book token. Complete the crossword using either the cryptic or the quick clues and send it to us with your name and address. Send your solution to: Cryptic/Quick Crossword No.904, The Irish Mail on Sunday, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Entries must be received by Thursday. The winner will be drawn from a hat. The winner of Cryptic/Quick Crossword No.903 is Margerita Dawson, Emly, Co. Tipperary.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
9 Former spouse joining performing
group, to be precise (5)
10 Sent up light ode
on bananas (9)
11 Nice latch, terribly
complicated (9)
12 Leaving a student
some food (5)
13 Arrest company
novices by a river (6)
14 Weight on silver point?
That’s a long time ago (5,3)
16 Dorothy pursues fairy for
a semi-precious stone (7)
18 Play about church having
money that’s obsolete (7)
20 Clever date rushed
round, fast (8)
22 Nothing clear about prophet (6) 25 Gentle escape, but
not initially (5)
26 Ed crossed out ‘How
to get up’ (5,4)
28 Deployment of the drones
gets abbreviated (9)
29 Chosen the Spanish
tie design (5)
Down
1 Natural talent for
being corrupt (4)
2 Tin church left scrap (6)
3 The usual flag (8)
4 Notice a speedometer (5)
5 Made tulip change size (9)
6 Doctor won’t play
some music (6)
7 Very quickly while picture
is being taken (2,1,5)
8 Spoil grown-up, point
to speed (10)
13 Londoner, say, is
an investor (10)
15 Waiter, making a conclusion
about race, getting a book (9) 17 Belief about cat
embracing soldier (8)
19 Stopped and apprehended (8) 21 Write down missing gallery (6) 23 Composer finding
work in feature (6)
24 The first man to get a toy (5) 27 Waste pipe knocked
top off jug (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
9 Word for word (5) 10 Satirised (9)
11 Scientific (9)
12 Edible innards (5) 13 Shirt part (6)
14 Primitive era (5,3) 16 Green stone (7) 18 Former currency
unit (7)
20 Gifted (8)
22 Prophet (6) 25 Illumination (5)
26 Rules of attire (5,4) 28 Curtailed (9)
29 Exclusive (5)
Down
1 Crooked (4)
2 Annul (6)
3 Ordinary (8)
4 Timepiece (5)
5 Magnitude (9)
6 Soul music (6)
7 Immediately (2,1,5) 8 Degrade (10)
13 Industrialist (10)
15 Steward (9)
17 Faith (8)
19 Taken into
custody (8)
21 Write as music (6) 23 Polish composer (6) 24 Toy bear (5)
27 Pitcher (4)